have your cake and rate it: modelling feedback

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Have your cake and rate it: modelling

feedback and assessment

Felix JanewayViCE/PHEC 2014

Lifelong Learning Centre

What is a Lifelong Learning Centre?

Mature and school leavers

Widening participation backgrounds

Mixture of academic and life skills

Mixture of academic, technological and practical abilities

Aims – Assessing and giving feedback

To assess! Increase the quality of future work

To reflect on their methods of learning

Red-flag any other concerns

Task 1

What qualities would you want to see in this

cake?

“Make a chocolate cake to welcome our new students”

Task 2

Assign weightings to each of your criteria –

which are the most important?

“Make a chocolate cake to welcome our new students”

Task 3

Give each cake a mark out of 100% and give

feedback

“Make a chocolate cake to welcome our new students”

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The Cakes

A B C

D E F G

8

Work Quality Spread

A B C

D E F G

9

Work Quality Spread

A B C

D E F G

10

Modelling Collusion

A B C

D E F G

11

Modelling Plagiarism

A B C

D E F G

12

What is a failure?

A B C

D E F G

13

What is a failure?

A B C

D E F G

Benefits

• Even the least confident student had input

• Students did not feel ‘tested’

• Element of ‘giving’ from the instructors

• Light-hearted and fun

Limits

• Not all students like cake

• Not all students can marry the analogies to the real world

assessment

• Time cost

• 94% ‘Useful’ or ‘Very Useful’ Rating

“The cake [activity] was fun, didn’t take up too much time and had a clear point

to it”

“I am a hands on learner and from the cake activity with Felix I remember what

the aim was.”

Measurements of Success

Measurements of Success

• Springboard for comfortable discussion throughout year

• More honest discussions about feedback

• Student appreciation of workload

Have your cake and rate it: modelling

feedback and assessment

Felix JanewayViCE/PHEC 2014

Lifelong Learning Centre

Ellen AveryKaty DobsonLinda Forbes

Stephen MawSheryl MeskinEmma Pittard

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